The Sirens Network
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This is a Southern True Crime Podcast (AKA The Sirens Podcast) with creator and host Raven Rollins, A Legal Researcher and Victim Advocate, where she discusses cases from her hometown of Ada, Oklahoma, and many other Deep South and Southwestern cases with friends, experts, true crime authors, and more! Advocacy. Investigation. Education. Storytelling.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Sirens brings cold case focus, victim centered questions, and practical investigative scrutiny to Southern true crime.
Sirens belongs in True Crime with a case-first ear for Southern and Oklahoma stories, especially cold cases, suspicious deaths, and families left asking what investigators missed.
You want cold cases with the wine glass tagged before the theory gets airtime.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear-eyed look at criminal profiling and the myths built around it.
Rachel Corbett's The Monsters We Make takes on criminal profiling and the myths that grew around it. Raven Rollins moves through the cases tied to profiling's rise and keeps landing on the same uncomfortable point: the profiles were often wrong, and the story around them got…
A plainspoken true-crime conversation that turns on arrest, release, and victim-notification realities.
Raven Rollins grounds the conversation in a local true-crime frame, with Allegedly, True Crime from Pontotoc County, Oklahoma at the center. It moves from the book into the practical business of arrest, release, and victim notification, and the emphasis on delayed release…
A candid behind-the-scenes check-in that trades case tension for lived-in truth and practical support.
This episode turns inward, and that choice gives it shape. Instead of chasing a new case, it follows the work around the show: book business, studio visits, local coverage, and the slow grind of keeping a true crime podcast moving while still trying to keep public records…
A plainspoken campus-murder story that keeps the victim, not the spectacle, at the center.
The piece keeps Virginia Ginger Olson, a 19-year-old UNC Asheville student, at the center and treats her killing as public memory rather than spectacle. It returns to her final morning in April 1973 with a plainspoken focus on records, names, and local history.
A victim-centered Southern true crime conversation that keeps Tanya McKinley in view as a person, not a case.
Tony Adame's Chase the Devil conversation treats Tanya Eldridge McKinley's 1984 New Year's Eve killing in Pensacola as a story about someone trying to get out from under abuse and start over. That framing gives the episode more force than a routine murder recap.
A fact-focused cold-case conversation that stays close to the people and questions still left behind.
This episode follows Raven Rollins as she talks through Sins of the South and three Oklahoma cold cases, with a focus on the people still living beside them.
A blunt, interview-led look at Breonna Wells's case and the people still carrying it.
Sirens frames Breonna Wells's case through a conversation with Dan Brown Jr. of Crime Sonics, and that keeps the focus on Girl Forgotten's raw interviews, haunting soundtrack, and refusal to smooth over what happened.
A conversation-heavy true crime case that stays close to the evidence and the human cost.
This episode stays close to the Roger Wheeler killing and lets the facts do most of the work. The broken glasses, the live .38 caliber rounds, and the phone calls that gradually stitch the day together give it a plain, steady tension that lands well.
Strange cases, loud banter, no polish.
Case files with a psychological verdict.
Courtroom chaos, case updates, sharp reactions.
Behavior, evidence, and accountability.
True crime, hauntings, horror, and Sunday Scaries.
A Russian mole inside CIA headquarters - a whodunit of espionage and betrayal.
Host Raven Rollins interviews PI and author Greg Overacker about his book on Brianna Maitland's disappearance, exploring similarities to Maura Murray's case, investigative errors, and personal stories from his bounty hunting past.
Sirens presents a Raven’s Reviews special with Michelle Tooker, the author of True Crime Trivia, whose third and final book is due April 30 and whose series totals 900 questions.
The violence escalated after he left and returned
Rachel Corbett talks with Raven Rollins about The Monsters We Make, a book that traces her childhood connection to Scott Johnson and a murder-suicide she learned the fuller truth about in her early 20s.
Allie Stevens, 22, describes dating Gage after meeting him through a dating app and says the relationship shifted from flowers and gifts to control over her clothes, friends, and phone.
Sagit Schwartz, a licensed psychotherapist turned full-time writer, discusses Since She’s Been Gone and says her clinical background shaped the novel’s eating-disorder portrayal.
Marta McDowell discusses Gardening Can Be Murder, her sixth book, and explains how she built it around poisonous plants, famous mystery writers, and a structure based on motive, means, opportunity, suspects, and detectives.
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Sirens breaks from its regular programming for a new year crossover built around fresh listening picks.
Sirens covers the Sirloin Stockade massacre in Oklahoma City, starting with the June 22, 1978 Lorenz family attack on I-35 near Purcell.
Hosts Raven Rollins and Mandy McNeely provide updates on the Sirens podcast hiatus, revealing they're reducing episode frequency due to busy schedules.
This episode is part two of a true crime podcast taste test, featuring previews and discussions of various true crime shows.
This episode investigates the cold case of Brittany Tiger Gomez, a 26-year-old Native American woman from Ada, Oklahoma, who disappeared in 2018 and was found dead a month later.
Raven Rollins sits down with Dan Brown Jr.
Host Raven Rollins interviews mystery author JC Fuller about her Rockfish Island series, discussing her writing process, character inspiration, and experiences in indie publishing.
Raven Rollins talks with Brooklyn Nicole about Carol Somerville Butt and the questions that still hang over her death.
Hot Pursuit opens as a summer true-crime collaboration.
Hot Pursuit wraps up its summer true crime collaboration with one last round of stories centered on chasing answers.
Tony Adame sits down to talk about Chase the Devil and Tanya Eldridge McKinley’s case.
Ed Opperman introduces Raven Rollins and frames the conversation around her true-crime podcasting and books.
This episode features retired Tulsa Police Sergeant Mike Huff discussing the 1981 murder of Roger Wheeler, a case that exposed FBI corruption and mob involvement.
This episode explores the chilling 1944 Hex House case in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Carol Ann Mary Smith psychologically manipulated and controlled two women, Virginia Evans and Willetta Horner, using religious scripture and promises of spiritual reward to keep them living in subhuman conditions in her basement.
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Raven Rollins interviews Brian Santana (professor) and Cameron Santana (former cop) about their book 'A Murder on Campus', which investigates the 1973 unsolved rape and murder of 19-year-old UNC Asheville drama student Virginia Ginger Olson.